Resources & Reports

CCHP has released an issue brief on its research funded by the National Institute of Health Care Management (NIHCM) into the policy changes that need to be made in order for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) to utilize telehealth to address the opioid crisis.  This issue brief provides a comparison of reimbursement and prescribing policies both prior to and following the onset of the COVID-19 emergency.

Most states provide their Medicaid fee-for-service fee schedules online. These fee schedules are updated periodically to add or remove codes and update reimbursement rates. CCHP examined the fee schedules of each state and D.C. to identify the states reimbursing for technology-based service codes that are not defined as telehealth under Medicare.

Since its initial publication in 2013, the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) has released fourteen editions of the “State Telehealth Laws and Reimbursement Policies” report. The report is a compendium of state telehealth Medicaid fee-for-service policies, laws and regulations. This historical analysis utilizes the data gathered in CCHP’s seven years (14 editions) of publishing this report, to assess trends in Medicaid fee-for-service, identify changes and progress in specific areas, and provide context to the current telehealth policy landscape.

In 2018 CCHP conducted a 50-state scan of occupational therapy and physical therapy policies that was published in the fall 2018 edition of the International Journal of Telerehabilitation.  The survey results show the current level of adoption of both laws and regulations that allow physical and occupational therapists to use telehealth to engage in patient care services as of August 2018.

CCHP has released a report based on research completed between June-August 2018 which examines compliance with one specific provision in Texas enacted legislation SB 1107 (2017), which requires health benefit plan issuers (referred to as “issuers”) to adopt and display in a conspicuous manner the issuer’s policies and payment practices for telemedicine medical services and telehealth services on their websites, effective Jan. 2018.  This is the first law in the country to place such a requirement on issuers.